This biographical profile helps document changes in St. Charles (c. 1960 - 2000) as captured by local newspaper articles about community residents' lives and businesses. Photocopies of articles compiled by St. Charles Library staff.

Articles: Should We Drink the Water? Typhoid Fever Worries at the Columbian Exposition; The Chicago Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Company: A Profile of a Black-Owned Enterprise; A New Version of the Founding of the Chicago Daily News; Hamlet...

Papers, Addresses, Reports: Mahlon Loomis, the Discoverer and Inventor of Radio: A Report by the Chairman of the Radio Discovery Committee of the Illinois State Academy of Science; The Stratigraphy of the Cedar City Formation (Middle Devonian)...

Articles: Around the World in a Day: International Participation in the World's Columbian Exposition; The Bulgarian Colony of Southwestern Illinois, 1900-1920; Community Dynamics and Educational Decisions: Establishing Public Schools in...